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P3D Re: twin SLR options


  • From: pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Subject: P3D Re: twin SLR options
  • Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:17:06 -0600

Jim Harp writes:
>     This spring I bought two Ricoh XR-10M cameras with 50mm lenses from
> Cambridge Camera in New York- the whole package cost about $400.  I keep
> these attached to a 91/2" slide bar I got from Dalia.   The XR-10s have
> electronic shutters which just happen to synchronize if you connect a
> sub-mini audio plug between the two camera's remote control sockets.  Thus I
> was able to synch up the shutters by spending about $10 at Radio Shack. I
> was noticing some fuzziness in my exposures which I attributed to the
> cameras moving when I pressed the shutter. This led to my buying a single
> remote shutter release from B&H (about $30) which I wired to the Radio Shack
> contraption- The shutters seem to be more consistently synchronized when
> fired from the remote release.  

Can you send me, privately if necessary, the details of how you got
the shutters wired?  Did you use some diodes or something to prevent
"cross-talk" between the two cameras?

I have two Ricoh Shotmasters for which I'm now re-building the shutter
cable for the umpteenth time, and I'd like to make something simple
and durable.  I'm assuming the electronic shutter circuits are the
same on the XR-10M as on the Shotmaster.

Thanks,

-pd


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